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Medicina dello Sport 2019 March;72(1):164-70

DOI: 10.23736/S0025-7826.19.03478-1

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language: English, Italian

Mediastinal incidentaloma in a professional football player diagnosed with whole body MRI imaging

Silvana GIANNINI ¹ ✉, Arrigo GIOMBINI ², Chiara FOSSATI ², Antonello CICCARELLI ², Fabio PIGOZZI ²

¹ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Villa Stuart Sports Clinic, FIFA Excellence Center, Rome, Italy; ² Unit of Sports Medicine, Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, “Foro Italico” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) has been available for some time, but only recently it has become a valuable method for total body screening from head to toes. WB-MRI is increasingly being used in the diagnostics of systemic musculoskeletal disorders, as well as a variety of oncological e non-oncological diseases; it is able to detect subtle lesions and pathologic changes in normal structures, reducing image interpretation time. We are presenting a case where WB- MRI imaging allowed to incidentally detect a mediastinal Hodgkin lymphoma in a professional soccer player referred to our observation after a contact trauma occurred during a soccer match.

KEY WORDS: Whole body imaging - Mediastinal incidentaloma - Hodgkin disease